Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 136

This answer so confused poor Alice, that she let the Dormouse go on for some time without interrupting it.

Who acts: Alice, Dormouse · What happens: let, go on, interrupt · To what, where: answer

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice, Dormouse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 answer	det
2	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 confused	advmod
4	confused	confused	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 answer	amod
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Alice	amod
6	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 confused	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 let	punct
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 let	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 let	nsubj
10	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 confused	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Dormouse	det
12	Dormouse	Dormouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 go	nsubj
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 let	xcomp
14	on	on	ADV	_	13 go	advmod
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 time	case
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 time	det
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 go	obl
18	without	without	SCONJ	_	19 interrupting	mark
19	interrupting	interrupt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 go	advcl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 interrupting	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 answer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	let	past	Alice			tree rules
2	go on	infinitive	the Dormouse		time	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	interrupt	gerund	the Dormouse not said here	answer		tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Project Gutenberg book 11 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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